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The Ontology team is crafting the best ontology of work in the world-- describing the services, projects, and skills requested and offered by clients and talent. As Product Manager, you will seek out, describe, prioritize, and execute on new opportunities for the ontology to align with the different mental models of our customers. You will develop a deep understanding of prospective hiring manager needs, and deliver relevant user site shopping experiences for our customers. You will partner with cross-functional teams to conduct rapid tests to improve new user conversion. This is a high-impact role that solves both strategic and operational challenges.

Your Responsibilities:

• Lead your product area:
• Collaborate with the client onboarding, ontology, data science, search and engineering teams to identify and drive improvements to Upwork’s ontology (and supporting services) in order to meet the evolving needs of the business.
• Guide product owners on how best to utilize the ontology and seek out new applications of the ontology across Upwork’s business and organization to build customer and business value.
• Translate acquisition strategies and personalization experiences into the user site.
• Know your market and customers: You’ll deeply understand and seek key trends in the broader landscape and the specific needs of our different customer targets.
• Back up hypotheses with quantitative tests: The proof is in the numbers. You’ll craft and run quantitative tests to deliver insights.
• Be an excellent cross-functional partner: You’ll both lead and partner with other product managers, designers, engineers, analysts, and marketing colleagues to execute cross-product and cross-functional initiatives.

What it takes to catch our eye:

• Experience with shipping high quality user experiences, and working on larger, more complex products and/or data rich platforms e.g. two-sided marketplaces.
• The ability to go broad as well as deep: You can solve for bigger picture and long term goals whilst rolling up your sleeves to write user stories in JIRA, set up test plans, and debug issues.
• Excellent interpersonal skills: You have a strong executive presence for collaborating with customers, peers, colleagues, and executives. You can succinctly articulate goals, progress, and priorities in written, verbal, and presentation formats.

How to really knock our socks off:

• Experience working with cross functional teams including acquisition, onboarding, and data science teams.
• Basic SQL skills and a keen ability to analyze data, recognize trends and identify key levers for optimization.
• An entrepreneurial spirit, including a willingness to take risks.